Yard STL bed sizes: what actually fits a 220 and a 300
Most Halloween STL packs assume you own a 300 mm bed. Most people don't.
If you're printing yard props on a stock Ender / P1S / Mini, the model that looks great on the product page will either not fit, or it'll print as four mystery pieces with no assembly notes. That's the whole reason HauntForge exists — files cut for real hobby beds, not a marketing render.
220 x 220 (Ender 3, most "standard" machines)
Fits: lantern cages, ravens, tombstone toppers, pumpkin stacks under ~180 mm, stake collars.
Does not fit in one piece: full tombstones, coffin lids, life-size skulls, porch columns.
Split those. Print the split, glue, then hide the seam with a 45° scarf — not a flat butt joint that shows in raking porch light.
256 x 256 (P1S / X1C)
Most of the pack prints in one piece. Still split anything taller than ~240 mm so you aren't fighting Z wobble for 18 hours.
300 x 300
Print the big pieces whole. Watch first-layer time — a 280 mm brim on a cold garage printer is how you warp a $12 brick of PETG.
Settings that survive October weather
PETG for anything that sits in sun or rain. PLA chalks and snaps after two weekends outside.
3 walls minimum. Wind loads a 2-foot tombstone like a sail.
0.2 mm / 0.4 mm nozzle. Don't chase 0.12 mm "quality" on a yard prop nobody inspects at 4 inches.
Brim on every piece with a footprint under 80 mm. Stakes especially.
15–20% gyroid. 8% infill looks fine on the bench and folds in a gust.
If your printer is the bottleneck — not the files — that's a different job. HauntForge also runs a 1-hour live repair session. The STL pack does not include repair, and repair does not include files.
Measure the bed before you buy filament. That's the whole post.
